Friedrich Spanheim the Elder

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Friedrich Spanheim the Elder

Friedrich Spanheim the Elder (born January 1, 1600 in Amberg ; † May 14, 1649 in Leiden ) was a German Reformed theologian.

Life

Spanheim came from a Reformed family of theologians. His father was the then rector of the Amberg pedagogy Wigand Spanheim, his mother Reneé was the daughter of the reformed pastor Daniel Tossanus .

After he had completed his first preparatory training at the pedagogy in Amberg, he took up a basic course in philosophical sciences on November 4, 1614 at the University of Heidelberg . With a master's degree, he turned on July 22, 1619 to study theology at the University of Geneva . In 1621 he became a private tutor in Dauphiné . During this time he also visited Paris, where his relative Samuel Durant advised him against accepting a professorship at the University of Lausanne .

In 1625 he traveled to England, returned to Geneva via Paris and in 1626 became professor of the philosophical subjects of logic and physics at the University of Geneva. In 1628 he became a preacher there and in 1631 took over a chair for theology in Geneva, having received honorary citizenship in 1628. On July 8, 1633 and October 21, 1637 he was rector of the college. Here he gained recognition as an Orthodox representative of Calvinism . In his capacity as a leading force at the Geneva University of Applied Sciences, he had written a report on the Thirty Years War entitled Le Soldat Suédois (1633) and gave the Geneva restituta speech (1635) on the occasion of the centenary of the Reformation in Geneva . Already here he proved that he was a strict advocate of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, who opposed all opposed efforts of the same. Above all, his work Exercititationes de gratia universali against Moyse Amyraut propagated the universalistic doctrine of grace.

Spanheim's reputation grew over time, so that the curators of the University of Leiden appointed the aspiring Reformed theologian on June 21, 1641 professor of theology at the University of Leiden. In order to take into account the practice of having a university degree as a university teacher, he went to the University of Basel in 1642 , where he enrolled under the rectorate of Emanuel Stupanus and received his doctorate in theology.

He then took up his professorship in Leiden on October 3, 1642 and then gave his introductory speech de officio theologi . As a strict representative of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, there were also many internal church struggles in Leiden. Nevertheless, he also established himself in Leiden. His extensive commitment had also had an impact on the administration of the Leiden University, of which he was rector in 1647/48.

The various public appearances as well as the private obligations drained his vitality, so that he died at the age of forty-nine.

From his marriage in 1627 to Francoise Charlotte du Port (Geneva 1602–1648), daughter of the Huguenot Pierre du Port, who fled from Poitou to Geneva, and his wife Jeanne Duchesne, he had seven children. The sons Ezechiel Spanheim , Friedrich Spanheim the Younger , Andreas Spanheim (Rentmeister Groningen and Count's Councilor, 1643–1726), Daniel Spanheim (1644–1675, librarian at the Heidelberg University Library) and René Spanheim are known. Marie and Jeanne are known from their daughters.

Works

  • Dubia evangelica. Geneva 1631-39. 3 volumes, Geneva 1639, 1654 1700.
  • Chamierus contractus. Geneva
  • Mémoires sur la vie et la mort de la Serenissime Princesse Louise Juliane, Electrice Palatine, née Princesse d'Orange. Leyden 1643.
  • Le soldat Suédois, ou l'Histoire de ce qui est passé en Allemagne depuis l'entrée du roi de Suède en 1630 jusqu'd sa mort. Geneva 1633, Amsterdam 1649. 2nd parts
  • Le Mercure Suisse, concernant les mouvements de ces derniers temps jusqu 'en 1634. Geneva 1631.
  • Geneva restituta, sive admiranda Reformationis Genevensis historia. Geneva 1635.
  • Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de Christophe vicomte de Dhona. Geneva 1639.
  • Pancratiae catholicae Epitome, corting the Pancratia van Chamier. Le Trône de grace, de jugement et de gloire. Leyden 1644.
  • Gangraena theol. anabaptisticae, overgezet in 't Engelsch. London, 1640.
  • Oratio funebris in excessum venerandi nobilissimique theologi Joannis Polyandri a Kerckhoven, dicta 17 Febr. 1646. Leiden 1646.
  • Vita Ludovicae Julianae, Electricis Palatinae, Friderici V. matris. Suffering 1645.
  • Diatribe historica de origine, progressu et sectes anabaptistarum. Franeker, 1645.
  • Chamierus contractus. Exercitationes, de gratia universali. 3 parts of Leiden, 1646.
  • Laudation funebris Friderici Henrici Arausionis Pr. Leiden 1647.
  • Expistola ad Cottierium de conciliatione Gratiae universalis. Suffering 1648.
  • Epist. ad Buchananum de controversiis Anglicanis et vindiciae de gratia universali.
  • Epistola ad Andr. Rivetum contra Jos. Halli librum, quod episcopatus sit juris divini.
  • Variae disputations anti-Anabaptisticae. Suffering 1643.
  • Vindiciae de Gratia universali quibus D. Admirando respondit. Amsterd. 1649.
  • Exercitationes in Epist. ad Hebraeos et ad Romanos.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kreuznach; 1583 Rector Zweibrücken, 1586 Latin teacher in St. Gallen, 1588 Rector of the Electoral Pedagogy, Dr. theol., President Church Council Amberg, † 1620 (1624) Amberg
  2. ↑ * March 16, 1569 in Montargis, m. 1588.
  3. ^ Gustav Toepke: The register of the University of Heidelberg from 1386 to 1662. Self-published, Heidelberg 1886, p. 270 Here he took under the name Fridericus Hieronymus Spanheimius, Ambergensis
  4. ^ Charles Le Fort: Le livre du Recteur: catalog des étudiants de l'Académie de Genève de 1559 à 1859. Jules Guillaume Fick, Geneva 1860, p. 87.
  5. ^ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave. Brill Archive, Leiden 1941, p.
  6. ↑ cf. Matriculation University of Basel ( online )
  7. ^ De Nederlandsche Leeuw 23 (1905), col. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Spanheim, Friedrich, the elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1649
Place of death Suffer